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Download one of the Universal Agent 7.26.x for z/OS cumulative PTF maintenance distribution files. Cumulative PTFs are packaged as a compressed tarball (sb-v.r.m.l-zos-PTFs.tar.Z) or as a ZIP file (sb-v.r.m.l-zos-PTFs.zip).

If the distribution files with the .tar.Z extension was downloaded, decompress it using any utility that can process files in Lempel-Ziv (that is, compress) format. Use tar to extract the files from the uncompressed file. To do both in a single statement, decompress the file to stdout and pipe the result to tar (for example, zcat sb-v.r.m.l-zos-PTFs.tar.Z | tar xvf -).

If the distribution file with the .zip extension was downloaded, decompress it using any utility that can process files in ZIP (or, PKZIP) format. The .zip file can also be extracted using Windows native file extraction tools.

Modify the UNVFTP-PTF.TXT script provided by the distribution file to upload the PTF files and the JCL (which resides in UNVRECV-PTF.JCL) to process them. Two versions of these files are included in the distribution file. The files in the main directory are EBCDIC-encoded files. ASCII-encoded versions of these files are in the ./ascii subdirectory. Look for the #HOSTNAME, #USERID, #PSWD, and #HLQ placeholders in UNVFTP-PTF.TXT and set them to the appropriate values.

Modify the JCL uploaded from UNVRECV-PTF.JCL and run the job to receive the cumulative PTF XMIT file.